Shawn Michaels Quotes

I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.

I love hard work. 'One Man, Two Guvnors' was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.

Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

I would work until I got stuck, and I would put it down and pick up something else. I might be able to take a 20-minute nap and get to work again. That way, I was able to work about 10 hours a day... It was important to me to work every day. I managed to work on Christmas day, just to be able to say I worked 365 days a year.

Everybody wants to come out here and test my cardio but I'm one of the hardest working guys in the division.

I trained 8 hours a day 7 seven days a week and I had 2 weeks off in a year.

If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.

But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years. That is very difficult, mentally.

Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

A good thing is I've been playing tennis I think every day for the last two months. I really haven't had a day off. I've been doing things that I did used to do.

I work every single day, even on Sundays.

I have always worked long hours and very hard. It is the way I am. Same as always. Up about seven and get to bed about 12 to 1, something like that.

There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.

People always ask me how long somebody can last as long as I've been lasting and continue to keep doing it, so I figured that people didn't really know how to do that.

In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.

You're wrestling seven days a week for four months straight. It's a great way to learn.

I don't know how I did it, but I worked 7 days a week.

I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.

It's tough to perform every week and do it well. Most people don't know how hard that is.

It is difficult to take in how long you have been doing one thing when you compete at the highest level and always with the highest intensity.

I need to maintain my performance levels high for many seasons. I hope I can do that.

As professionals, you always have to perform to the top of your ability.

Dancing all night and then vocal lessons right after was hard and not unusual - but I enjoyed it.

I always say that I continue to set the standard really high for myself, but you don't get into a catch count or any of that stuff. I think it's just in how you play, how you approach the game.

I always say the best players I have ever worked with are the hardest players I have ever worked with.